People for photos next to a Communist monument in Nanniwan in Yan’an city, China’s northwest Shaanxi province on October 16, 2022, on the first day of 20th Chinese Communist Party Congress. (Photo by Jade Gao/AFP Photo)





This aerial photo taken on October 20, 2022 shows a farmer operating a tractor to prepare the harvested paddy fields for rapeseed sowing in Shangban Village of Luoting Township in Nanchang City, east China's Jiangxi Province. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A security personnel checks on a journalist near a TV screen showing image of President Xi Jinping at a media hotel in Beijing, Friday, October 21, 2022. The Chinese Communist Party is holding its every-five-year national congress which will unveil new leadership for the coming five years. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A security official takes a photo of a bus carrying journalists as they leave to cover the closing ceremony of the 20th National Congress of China's ruling Communist Party in Beijing, Saturday, Ocober. 22, 2022. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Chinese President Xi Jinping at left looks on as former Chinese President Hu Jintao is assisted to leave the hall during the closing ceremony of the 20th National Congress of China's ruling Communist Party at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Saturday, October 22, 2022. Former Chinese President Hu Jintao, Xi's predecessor as party leader, was helped off the stage shortly after foreign media came in, sparking speculation about his health. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





A director conducts band members as they perform during the closing ceremony of the 20th National Congress of China's ruling Communist Party at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Saturday, Ocober. 22, 2022. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Residents and neighborhood watch members stand near a Chinese flag along a street ahead of the closing ceremony of the 20th National Congress of China's ruling Communist Party in Beijing, Saturday, Ocober. 22, 2022. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





A delegate poses for a photo at the end of the closing ceremony of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in front of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on Saturday, October 22, 2022. President Xi Jinping is officially set for a third term surrounded by allies, after key Communist Party officials without close ties to the Chinese leader exited the nation's top leadership body. (Photo by Bloomberg)





(L-R)Li Xi, Cai Qi, Zhao Leji, Xi Jinping ,Li Qiang, Wang Huning and Ding Xuexiang attend the meeting between members of the standing committee of the Political Bureau of the 20th CPC Central Committee and Chinese and foreign journalists at The Great Hall of People on October 23, 2022 in Beijing, China. China's ruling Communist Party today revealed the new Politburo Standing Committee after its 20th congress. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)





Swimmers compete in the annual harbor race at the Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong, Sunday, October 23, 2022. Thousands of swimmers took part in the Hong Kong's iconic race swimming across the harbor from Hong Kong Island to Kowloon Peninsula. (Photo by Anthony Kwan/AP Photo)





Chinese President Xi Jinping is seen at the end of the Chinese Communist Party's 20th Party Congress on a giant screen a commercial district of Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province on Sunday, October 23, 2022. China's economic growth accelerated in the latest quarter but still was among the slowest in decades as the country wrestled with repeated closures of cities to fight virus outbreaks. (Photo by Chinatopix via AP Photo)





Residents wear masks wait at a bus stop near skyscrapers in the Central Business District in Beijing, Monday, October 24, 2022. China's economic growth picked up in the latest quarter but still was among the weakest in decades as the ruling Communist Party tries to reverse a slump while enforcing anti-virus controls and a crackdown on debt in its vast real estate industry. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





A worker wearing a face mask stands outside an exit from a subway station to stop visitors from going to the Universal Studios Beijing resort, which according to a notice was closed for epidemic control, in Beijing, Wednesday, October 26, 2022. The Chinese city of Shanghai started administering an inhalable COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday in what appears to be a world first. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





A woman rides past a coronavirus testing facility displaying posters promoting the COVID-19 vaccination in Beijing, Wednesday, October 26, 2022. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Women wearing face masks wait in line to get their routine COVID-19 throat swab tests at a coronavirus testing site in Beijing, Wednesday, October 26, 2022. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A man wearing a face mask peeps inside a COVID-19 vaccination mobile facility in Beijing, Wednesday, October 26, 2022. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A commuter wearing a face mask walks out of a subway station in the central business district in Beijing, Friday, October 28, 2022. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





Commuters wearing face masks ride scooters along a street in the central business district in Beijing, Friday, October 28, 2022. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





A commuter wearing a face mask pushes a bicycle across a pedestrian bridge in the central business district in Beijing, Friday, October 28, 2022. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





Street vendors wearing face masks make takeaway food for commuters at a cart in the central business district in Beijing, Friday, October 28, 2022. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)